K & A Pacific Bell Administrative Center

 

Client: Pacific Bell
Contractor: Anning-Johnson Company
Architect: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
   
Location: San Ramon, CA

K&A Scope of Work: Molds, prefabrication of cast gypsum columns and atrium planters.

Project Description: K&A prefabricated about 500 hard-column covers, 3/16 in. thick and weighing just 100 pounds, in place of the conventional cast-plaster pieces weighing about 1,000 pounds each. K&A also made eight atrium planters in the shape of a martini glass. See the article below for more details.

Press: Form & Function, Issue 6, 1987. "Gypsum goes long distance for phone company"


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